I'm in Baltimore area for now. I'm shomer mitzvot. I do Archery, weights, and exercise stuff, read books, watch films. The "givens" now aside, there is no order to interests. independent press, independent music, independent film, Indigenous cultures, (esp. cultural isolates, etc), Buffy-verse, Goblin Universe, Chi Gong, tai chi, taiji, ADD, Alphonse Mucha, ASL, Andrew Wyeth, N. C. Wyeth, Anselm Keiffer, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, archery, Urban Exploration, Arthur Rackham, Athens Ohio, bioregionalism, brahmacharya, chicano, chicana, chopping wood, splitting wood, nailing wood, anthropology, cirque du soleil, Le Parkour, phenomenology, comparative epistemology, russian twists, comparative ontology, thunderstorms, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, noosphere, Cryptonomicon, Deaf, CAPD, DHH, beaches in the winter, D.I.Y, DIY, Edmund Dulac, Cybrarians, Media, Communications, squats, History, Gustave Dore', Howard Pyle, homeschooling, deadlifts, homeshuling, Israel, Judaism, kayaking, Yoga, shrugs, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Balkans, libraries, New Orleans, paranormal, geology, Straight Edge, stifflegged deadlifts, Not Dead Yet, techn-occulture, Eastern Bioregions, rocks, trees, forests, oceans, dumbells instead of bars, WAVES, I believe in Midnight Tribes, I am in awe of real Riot Grrls, [SJ ones] and women with spines, board sports. Random swell websites visited on occasion:, lostdestinations.com, www.forteantimes.com, disinfo.com, www.issctaste.org/index.html, www.cryptome.org, www.fas.org, www.subbrit.org.uk, notdeadyet.org
NO ONE UNDER 18. Members of the Tribe. Shomrei Mitzvot. Old friends, people who know me in real life. Secondly, those of like mind, similar interests and amiable disposition. Put praxis before theory?; fellow archers, culture-jammers, collaborators, lifters of heavy objects, co-conspirators, Hippy gun nuts, uppity Cripps, Cybrarians, the creatively-insane. NO BANDS. Sorry.
Corvus Corax, Delerium, garmarna, vnv nation, funker vogt, rammstein, laibach, Atari Teenage Riot, Razed in Black, Apoptygma Berserk, Das Ich, Collide, Funker Vogt, Synthpop, EBM, Darkwave, Skinny Puppy, (since 8th grade; honestly grew up to them, like my imaginary friend), Sisters of Mercy, Front Line Assembly, Ministry, The Cure, (especially 'P*rnography'), New Model Army, Front 242, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, The Swans, (most everything from "White Light.." on), The Pogues, Dead Can Dance, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Einsturzende Neubauten, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Bhangra, Hedningarna, Ravi Shankar, Duran Duran, Tool, [I play the], Dumbek, Tar, (a large-frame hand drum). [I have delusions of a theatrical/tribal/Gabber/found-sound/Aggro-industrial act called Body Riot, but I don't know that it will ever come to fruition, though I have contributed to], Rekombinant,
M. Night Shyamalan, Guy Ritchie, Jet Li, Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, "Exorcist", "Angel Heart", "BladeRunner", "Baraka", "Matrix", "Animatrix" (esp. 'Beyond'), "Amelie", "City of Lost Children" (most all Jeunet and Caro movies), "Triplets of Belleville", occasionally, Anime, etc.
I don't get much television but, "Buffy", BTVS, - I admit to watching, Gilmore Girls.
I would like to say there's no order to my secular reading habits - but there's probably no order to ANY of my reading habits, Neil Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, is also swell. H.P. Lovecraft, his magical realism was central to my adolescence. Topics of my general interest include assorted readings in above-mentioned philosophical fields, epistemic justification, pretheoretical thinking (Roy Clouser, and Hermann Dooyeweerd mostly), modern cases of exorcism, kids books; recently read Pinchbeck's, Breaking Open the Head, (a really fun introduction to ASCs/entheogens, etc, when he's not talking about himself and dispensing the usual stock pseudo-historical bits), erik von kuehnelt-leddhin, Forbidden archaeology, "Forteana" (assorted anomalous phenomena that factor into the "demon-haunted universe" of Sagan's nightmares; examples abound at forteantimes.com), ghost stories, (paranormal in general sans UFO's), history of ideas, Academic interest in:, Freemasonry, Hermeticism, and related Western Mystical traditions (and ensuing continuities, influence, etc), history of symbolism, homeschooling, Traditionalist School, Ananda Coomaraswamy, (esp. on art history), Rene Guenon, Titus Burckhardt, seyyed hussein nasr, Huston Smith, etc), medieval origins of science, Holmes Rolston, (is my favorite author in "religion and science" issues);, chesterton, c.s. lewis, loren eiseley, rene daumal, In jewish philosophy/learning, Rav Kook, Rav Yehuda Amital, R. Eliezer Berkovits, Rabbi Avraham Sutton,. I've of recent gotten interested in theory in 'Information' (esp. consequences in relating to what we know/believe, etc, as "mere information/data" and how we know it as just so much "information processing"; cognitivism). Neil Postman, is a recent reading, Theodore Roczak, later. "Occult" systems and LitCrit squished in with semiotics, "Hermeticism" and transcendentalist uses/readings of language; Cognition and media, paleography, digitial media, development of the Alphabet, theory/history of Taxonomy, organization of knowledge (and how it affects how we "see" it; usual media criticism stuff)...I'm going to stop now.
The Hakhamim v'Tzaddikim, Archibald "Harry" Tuttle, Dr. Emmet Brown, Blank Reg, Slim "The Hammerman" Froman, Dorothy Day and other revolutionaries of the heart.